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THE CLAUDETTE COLBERT COLLECTION (2009)
complete 3-disc boxset

Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009

Remarkable movie star Claudette Colbert was always considered at the very top of her game over a film career that lasted 34 years, 50 if you count an extra TV movie appearance. A consummate professional, she played the game her own way, neither fighting to be the best-regarded actress nor the most desired lover. Stories about her on-set demands never reached bad-reputation levels. She definitely had her wilder party years but never attracted a scandal. Born French but raised in America, Emille Claudette Chauchoin could pass for foreign royalty or the down-to-earth girl next door. She was a slinky seductress for Cecil B. DeMille, a runaway heiress for Frank Capra and one of Preston Sturges' most elegant comediennes.

Universal's new The Claudette Colbert Collection stacks six titles scattered over fourteen of her best years. 

CONTENTS:

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DISC 1
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NO TIME FOR LOVE (Mitchell Leisen; 1943, 83 min.)
imdb.com/title/tt0036208/
Claudette Colbert plays a sophisticated fashion photographer whose vindictive editor decides to teach her a lesson by assigning her to photograph construction workers. After inadvertently causing one of the workers (played by Fred MacMurray) to be fired, she hires him as her assistant resulting in conflict and... possibly romance.

THE EGG AND I (Chester Erskine; 1947, 90 min.)
imdb.com/title/tt0039349/
A fish-out-of-water rib-tickler inspired by a true story.  Claudette Colbert is stars as a city gal who finds herself living the "simple life" after her new husband (played by Fred MacMurray) decides they should who buy a chicken farm on a whim and live on this rustic farm miles away from civilization. When life becomes an endless battle of repairs, rain, ornery livestock and chickens, their marriage is put to the test in this heartwarming comedy.  Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride co-star, debuting as Ma and Pa Kettle.


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DISC 2
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I MET HIM IN PARIS (Wesley Ruggles; 1937, 86 min.)
imdb.com/title/tt0029036/
All is fair in love and fashion as a successful American fashion designer (Claudette Colbert) must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright (Melvyn Douglas), a dashing playboy (Robert Young) and a hometown boy (Lee Bowman). Through a series of slapstick winter sports she must decide which of the men she truly loves. 

BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (Wesley Ruggles; 1937, 86 min.)
imdb.com/title/tt0029929/
An Ernst Lubitsch comedy with a millionaire who's gone through seven marriages and looks to make a French shopgirl his next bride. The daughter (Claudette Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat is determined to teach her millionaire groom (Gary Cooper) a lesson when she learns that their wedding day is not his first trip down the aisle.


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DISC 3
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THREE-CORNERED MOON (Elliott Nugent; 1933, 77 min.)
imdb.com/title/tt0024664/
Moody rich girl Liz (Colbert) has a lot of angst and a writer boyfriend, much to the dismay of a hardworking doctor who fancies her. When the margins are called on her mother's stock, Liz and her family are going to get some lessons about what's important.

MAID OF SALEM (Frank Lloyd; 1937, 85 min.
imdb.com/title/tt0029190
Barbara (Colbert), a Puritan woman in Salem, isn't interested in a wealthy elder's attention, but instead favors a Virginia fugitive (Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity) with a definitely impure lust for life. When the witch trials hit town, she could get burned?or at least hanged?because of her secret romance.

Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.64 + 7.55 + 7.48 GB 
Time (total): 530 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: English
Subtitles: optional English | French | Spanish

BONUS FEATURES:
D1
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# Claudette Colbert - Queen of the Silver Screen.
# Trailers.


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